Fería de Abril
Sevilla's week-long
fiesta is Andalucía
at its celebratory
best, with a vast
fair of flamenco
dance tents, and
horsemen and women
dressed to kill.
La Giralda
One of the city's
principal landmarks
is la Giralda - a
colossal tower
originally erected
by the Moors as a
mosque minaret and
later converted into
a bell tower for the
world's largest
Gothic cathedral.
You get an
incredible view from
the top.
María Luisa Park
Beat the heat of the
afternoon and steel
yourself for a long
night on the town
with a nap in
Sevilla's elegant
María Luisa Park.
There's plenty of
cool shade to doze
in, and the dreamy
tone is accentuated
by the trickle of
fountains.
Bar Modesto
As the city which
claims to have
invented tapas,
Sevilla knocks spots
off the competition.
A good place to pick
up the trail is Bar
Modesto , in the
Santa Cruz district,
which offers just
about every tapas
imaginable.
La Carbonería
Outside Feria week,
flamenco music is
hard to find in
Sevilla, with most
venues offering
tacky
"shows"
instead of the real
thing. La Carbonería
is an exception - a
quirky bar north of
Santa Cruz church
which hosts sessions
by local gypsy
musicians most night
of the week.
La marcha
Nightlife in
Sevilla, known for
good reason as la
marcha (marching),
usually means an
interminable tapas-bar
crawl around Santa
Cruz, followed by a
session in a
nightclub and a mass
get-together at dawn
in the Plaza San
Salvador. Not for
the fainthearted.
